FEMALE BLACK-POLL WARBLER. 
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FEMALE BLACK-POLL WARBLER SYLVIA STRIATA. 
Plate LIV. Fig. 4. 
Amer. Orn. vol. iv. p. 40. 
SYLVICOLA STRIATA.— Swainson. 
This bird was shot in the same excursion with the preceding, 
and is introduced here for the purpose of preventing future 
collectors, into whose hands specimens of it may chance to 
fall, from considering it as another and a distinct species. Its 
history, as far as was then known, has been detailed in a 
preceding part of this work, supra, p. 32. Of its nest and 
eggs I am still ignorant. It doubtless breeds both here and 
in New Jersey, having myself found it in both places during 
the summer. From its habit of keeping on the highest 
branches of trees, it probably builds in such situations, and its 
nest may long remain unknown to us. 
Pennant, who describes this species, says that it inhabits, 
during summer, Newfoundland and New York, and is called 
in the last, Sailor . This name, for which, however, no reason 
is given, must be very local, as the bird itself is one of those 
silent, shy, and solitary individuals, that seek the deep retreats 
of the forest, and are known to few or none but the naturalist. 
Length of the female Black-cap, five inches and a quarter, 
extent, eight and a quarter ; bill, brownish black ; crown, 
yellow olive, streaked with black ; back, the same, mixed with 
some pale slate ; wings, dusky brown, edged with olive ; first 
and second wing-coverts, tipt with white ; tertials, edged with 
yellowish white ; tail-coverts, pale gray ; tail, dusky, forked, 
the two exterior feathers marked on their inner vanes with 
a spot of white ; round the eye is a whitish ring ; cheeks and 
sides of the breast, tinged with yellow, and slightly spotted 
with black ; chin, white, as are also the belly and vent ; legs 
and feet, dirty orange. 
The young bird of the first season, and the female, as is 
usually the case, are very much alike in plumage. On their 
